"Stet" is just an editing term that means "ignore the correction I just made". I don't use it very often, of course. Especially not with Name of Paper Withheld.

My new site is not done yet. It has taken longer than any of us anticipated, but I really do plan to move over there. For starters, I think it's time I had a real URL instead of one I picked on a lark the afternoon I decided to start a blog.

The original design was done by a friend of mine as a favour, but she hasn't had the time to finish it. I am trying to find someone who knows about CSS. Anyone out there interested in a small job? My friend says it will only be a few hours.

At least we know why the government is broke and looking to increase our taxes. We have employees like this one with too much time on her hands who basically steal from the citizens of the North. Axe her job and the countless others who sit at their desks and blog or email each other dirty emails and we might be $40 million in the black.

I'm at work and don't have time for a full response, but your comment is legitimate and you do deserve an immediate answer.

Beheading is a running joke on this site. I completely understand why a person might think it's over the top if he or she was new to the blog.

It is a reference to a comment a reader made years ago about a journalism jihad. I adopted it precisely because it is so silly. It is more than a "bit far"; it's completely ridiculous. I do not want people with poor grammar skills to be physically harmed in any way. This should be obvious, but I'll say it anyway.

Thanks for the explanation - it makes more sense now. Of course I know you wouldn't actually consider that a reasonable punishment. Just for people who don't know about the inside joke, bringing the thought of beheading into it seems disturbing (especially after the bus attacks).

You are right. It is a disturbing image, and at the time I started using it, it wasn't taken seriously. After the bus attacks, the joke feels a bit different. I probably should have used a different phrase.

This is one of the hazards of blogging: I love it when new people visit my site, but they're not familiar with phrases I've used in the past.

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